Rain
Comic 1404 - Kaminari - Companions
Author Notes:
Not gonna lie; I'm really proud of this page. Hokori kicking the door "down". Aneko swooping in to defend against Onajimi's strike, while Kaminari walks away not the least bit concerned. Not to mention all four of them (mostly) calmly dropping sass on an increasingly frustrated antagonist, I think this is one of the most badass things I've ever drawn. Some might find it campy - and that's totally fine if you do - but I eat this kinda thing up. ^_^
Sure, maybe it feels too easy, but it's just the first episode. Naturally, the villains will get tougher as the story goes. And being realistic, I don't think this week's pages would fill more than a few minutes of screen time if it were actually animated anyway. So of course, there's still most of the episode to go from here. Maybe our heroes get lost escaping the dungeon, only to get surrounded by a far greater number of guards. Maybe they get boxed in when Onajimi wheels out the Dragon Tank. Or maybe she even has some secret power of her own, that she didn't expect to have to resort to for a flightless "angel" and her three misfit companions. XD
Either way, I know full well I could've dragged this out to show the "whole episode", but I don't want to grind the main story to a halt (again). So, come Monday, we'll be checking back in with Rain and her friends immediately after the episode ends.
You're definitely getting a lot of the important points I wanted to show with this scene. But once again, when I get around to assembling the Rain book that has this chapter, maybe I'll expand this scene if people want (still probably won't be the full episode, but it could be a little more as I did cut a lot to condense this into three pages).
All that said, I hope you enjoyed this little detour. ^_^
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Not what I was going for, but I guess I see it. Whoops. ^^;
Time to start from the beginning again!
can't wait to... uh, go back to the main cast next week. that's fine too.
(I jest, of course, though I do appreciate the experimentation.)